Dark as black in the glass. Over the top at this point, needed air time to open up. Firm tannins, good acidity and strong currant flavor. It comes across as a wine just bottled. This really needs another 7-10 years to soften up. Recommend holding. 95+
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spectacular effortless elegance took 30 minutes to open up but was magic from the first moment the cork was removed nose blasting of dark fruit yet a soft elegance but still with tension we just finished 2007 bond vecina but I think this outshined so happy to share at our post wedding roundtable again, years of life left
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Probably had this a bit too soon. The wine was inky in color, as advertised, with a reasonable mix of fruits and structure. Nothing said "wow" just yet, though the wine itself still felt young and underdeveloped. Hard to see time not being this wine's friend. I'd wait another 2-3 years.
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Tor To-Kalon is always special wine, this year there 3 different bottling. All relative similar, but priced differently. All relatively the same tasting score. This is wine 3 of 3. Unlike the other 2 offering, Black Magic has other Bordeaux blending grapes.
This is big wine, with huge black fruit, cocoa, cedar, tobacco and the complexity is layered. This is not a drink now wine. It's probably needs to be cellar 5-8 years.
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1/13/2024 - bambam Likes this wine: 95 Points
Dark as black in the glass. Over the top at this point, needed air time to open up. Firm tannins, good acidity and strong currant flavor. It comes across as a wine just bottled. This really needs another 7-10 years to soften up. Recommend holding. 95+
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11/10/2023 - bugdoced Likes this wine: 98 Points
spectacular effortless elegance
took 30 minutes to open up but was magic from the first moment the cork was removed
nose blasting of dark fruit
yet a soft elegance but still with tension
we just finished 2007 bond vecina but I think this outshined
so happy to share at our post wedding roundtable
again, years of life left
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10/29/2022 - jeffmudd Does not like this wine: 91 Points
As of now a gigantic mistake of a buy. Will give my last bottle a few years but doubt there’s much improvement
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12/1/2019 - TomOfCT Likes this wine: 93 Points
Probably had this a bit too soon. The wine was inky in color, as advertised, with a reasonable mix of fruits and structure. Nothing said "wow" just yet, though the wine itself still felt young and underdeveloped. Hard to see time not being this wine's friend. I'd wait another 2-3 years.
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8/19/2017 - BigBoy_Sonoma Likes this wine: 94 Points
Tor To-Kalon is always special wine, this year there 3 different bottling. All relative similar, but priced differently. All relatively the same tasting score. This is wine 3 of 3. Unlike the other 2 offering, Black Magic has other Bordeaux blending grapes.
This is big wine, with huge black fruit, cocoa, cedar, tobacco and the complexity is layered. This is not a drink now wine. It's probably needs to be cellar 5-8 years.
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